tominey show on gb the camilla tominey show on gb news. happy new year to you! we might only be five days into 20 2025, but there's been plenty of politics to get stuck into. already, the secretary of state for health and social care, wes streeting, is going to be on the show. i'm going to be asking him about his promise to cut waiting lists from a maximum of 18 months to 18 weeks by the end of the parliament. is he going to be able to do it.7 will he have to resign if he doesn't.7 i'm also going to be asking him why the government is resisting calls for a full national inquiry into the child rape gangs. i'll also be asking shadow home secretary chris philp whether it was sensible for kemi badenoch to accuse reform uk of lying about their membership figures. the deputy leader of reform uk, richard tice, will be live on the programme. does he know exactly what role nigel farage will have in tariff talks between the uk and the us.7 will in tariff talks between the uk and the us? will he be the conduh and the us? will he be the conduit between peter mandelson and donald trump? heaven forbid. and the managing director of the pubuc

and the managing director of the public safety foundation, oliver lawrence, will join me in on the show to offer a policing perspective on the child rape gang scandal that has been developing this week. and i'm also going to be hearing from the pollster scarlett mccgwire and former labour minister bill rammell. we're going to discuss what might be coming ahead for all of the parties. and i include reform in that who are rising through the ranks. there's a poll that we're going to be speaking about in the pay per view in just a moment, and just ask them what is really going to be the thing that we need to look out for in 2025. so again, 90 minutes of punchy british politics to come. do not think of going anywhere. let's get stuck into the sunday front pages now with former bbc broadcaster nicholas owen. nicholas, happy new year to you. chat to you. lovely to see you. right. let's get stuck into this mail on sunday poll. i love a poll. i love i love a new year

poll. i love i love a new year poll. this is a state of the nafion poll. this is a state of the nation poll. they've headlined it. poll. starmer will be out of number 10 in a year. now to be fair, nick, you did remind me this morning that you suggested this morning that you suggested this a few months ago. >> well, yes, i was. i did say that his chances of surviving through to the end of the parliamentary term were a bit thin, but it seems that the mail have gone out to ask the general pubuc have gone out to ask the general public and they've said, oh gosh, he won't last five. i'm not quite sure how short a term they think he's going to be. >> so they've said, how long do you expect keir starmer to remain pm? one year or less? 31% two years, 15%. three years 9%. the other interesting aspect of this survey is who do you think will be the next prime minister? nigel farage 20%. kemi badenoch 10%. angela rayner 7%. boris johnson 5%. rachel reeves 4%. keir starmer doesn't even

feature. >> yes, i know. >> so is it one term, keir? >> so is it one term, keir? >> well, as i did express that my scepticism about it. but but over the whole term i don't think it's going to happen as quickly as that. and, you know, if it happens at all. but it is fascinating this there's not much comfort for anybody apart from farage, is there? i mean, some of these figures are pretty dreadful. yeah. >> keir starmer, is he doing well at his job? there's a net disapproval rating of —42. >> yeah, yeah. kemi badenoch a net figure of —21. yeah. not very clever, is it? not very clever at all. >> who would you like to go to the pub with? the public are asking. boris johnson tops that poll, shortly followed by nigel farage. again. badenoch hasn't connected with the public. she's down at the bottom of that poll. more people would rather go for a beer with keir starmer than kemi badenoch, which is not a great which is not a great endorsement of the tory leader. >> no, no, absolutely. i think i think the trouble with kemi badenoch is that there's quite a bit of respect for her as a sort

of tough person, but she's just the sort of person that you wouldn't get a word in edgeways if you were in the pub with them. but i must tell people this that i have had quite a lot of it over the years, meeting up with boris johnson. not normally in pubs, normally in sort of cafes. in the morning when we're coffee time, you know, i was walking around the corner from him and he would come in to the greasy spoon and we'd both be ordering our coffee and he would always at me, you know, i never got a chance to almost say anything at all. and he'd still be talking with hair flowing as he left the left the building. so don't don't think of going to the pub with him, nigel farage. that would be more interesting. >> well, as long as you weren't having to buy all of the drinks. by having to buy all of the drinks. by his own admission, he does like to put it away. let's move on to the sunday telegraph. >> oh, yes. >> oh, yes. >> it's been interesting, nick, hasn't it? how the grooming scandal has resurfaced because kemi badenoch has basically admitted that the conservatives didn't do enough and is now pushing labour for this national inquiry. labour are resisting the idea of a national inquiry, and we'll get on to why in a

moment. but then we have this revelation in the telegraph that when he was opposition leader, and let's not forget, because he does like to mention it, he was former director of public prosecutions, you know. yes. >> keir starmer. yes he was. apparently he was. yes. >> that's a tall makers son. i don't know if you caught that, but equally, he was asked by this lady who was involved in the whistleblowing. what's her name? nick. she's down in joel cauchl >> yes. >> yes. >> which? jane. senior. >> which? jane. senior. >> jane, senior. >> jane, senior. >> she was the whistleblower who exposed the rotherham abuse. yes. she lobbied keir starmer for a meeting, which you would think that he'd want to take. i mean, this woman has been instrumental in revealing child rapists in rochdale society and he snubs her. >> yes. a very i must say , it's >> yes. a very i must say, it's one of those situations, isn't it, where whichever government has been in power, this thing has been in power, this thing has been in power, this thing has been coming along. there has been one big inquiry. there was a national inquiry by this lady, professor professor alexis jay, while the tories were in power. big inquiry going back some

years. yes, but looking into child grooming and terrible rape and all these sorts of things. 20 major recommendations made by that inquiry, not one of them was implemented by the last government. so, you know, there's mud flying around in all directions here. >> i agree with you. and i think that the conservatives are on shaky ground because they didn't do enough about this while they were in office. having said that, the concern about that previous jay inquiry is that it only covered 2010 to 2014. there's a massive read about this in the telegraph yesterday suggesting this goes back to the 19805. of suggesting this goes back to the 1980s. of course, there are massive questions to be asked. were the police and other authorities and social workers and other institutions mining their political, political, correct p's and q's at the expense of vulnerable teenage girls living in impoverished communities and indeed coming out? >> and also, one should just look at national, the way this works in national political terms as well, when particularly some labour mps are only in their constituencies by very

small margins. yes, there's a very big vote from people, let us say, with other interests, and they've got their eye on that. >> jess phillips, birmingham yardley because she's been criticised, particularly by elon musk. you know, she's done a lot for women and girls and safeguarding and being an anti—rape campaigner. and yet she's resisting this public inquiry. she thinks it's just okay for oldham to investigate oldham questions being asked of that. her birmingham yardley seatis that. her birmingham yardley seat is 45% muslim. is there a reluctance by some of these labour mps to mention the fact that these grooming gangs are led by predominantly pakistani men? is this going to alienate the muslim vote for labour? >> this is very, very, very difficult situation. and we keep saying, and i must say this, every government has had this issue to face, and all of them find it extremely difficult. >> well, i'll be asking both wes streeting and the shadow home secretary, chris philp, about it on the show a little later. let's 1512 00:07:55,752 --> 00:07:55